Max Telford

From our reanalyses, the 2D trees in which Eukarya emerge from asgards are biased by several pitfalls and by the existence of lateral gene transfer from proto-eukarya to asgards. See our review in Da Cunha et al., 2022 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ml…

Latest podcast episode now out: scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm/episodes/quest…. This week @ProfSyK and I answer listener questions about previous #science topics. #Football #quantum #chemistry @streamingspires . .

Wonderfully kind and fulsome review of my book 'The Tree of Life' in the TLS by Charles Foster. "breezy, scholarly, whimsical, rigorous and companionable…" "extraordinary, adventurous book." I am absolutely THRILLED. @johnmurrays @uclbiosciences the-tls.co.uk/science-techno…

Leaving X now. Should have gone a while ago. Hateful Man.

HELP! Palaeontological terminology/spelling help please!! Eon or Aeon for geological Eon? Aeon is correct in English English but is there an international agreement that 'Eon' is correct when talking about Hadean etc? Or can I use 'Hadean Aeon'? THANKS!

Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch @StuWest8

Instant classic of the macroevolution and geobiology: "Cryogenian glaciations appear to define this shift toward greater extinction and diversification rates" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A partnership programme -UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports Black, Asian, and minority ethnic postgraduate research degree students at the start of their academic career. The application is now opening! Deadline: Friday 10 Jan 2025 shorturl.at/rr9q5

We’re recruiting a PhD student to use comparative omics to investigate why some viruses can efficiently infect both human and mosquito cells, but lead to different infection outcomes. Fully funded position by @EvoMG_Bcn at UPF-CRG with the @ViroUPF lab. crg.eu/en/content/tra…

New paper with @snaild_it❗️ You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction! This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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